What are the roles of C-UAS?

What are the roles of C-UAS?

• A. RISTA — Recon, Intelligence, Surveillance
• B. Recon, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting, and Attack
• C. Deny, Disrupt, Deceive
• D. Detect, Destroy, Defend

Answer: (B)

The question tests the full sequence of activities a C-UAS capability performs—from sensing the airspace to taking action. The best answer captures Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting, and Attack, which together describe how a C-UAS system first gathers awareness, analyzes and understands the threat, continuously monitors it, identifies the precise target, and then engages to neutralize it. This reflects the complete operational flow: discover and understand the threat (recon, intelligence, surveillance), pinpoint the threat (targeting), and then defeat it (attack). The other options fall short because they either describe a broader intelligence framework that isn’t specific to C-UAS actions, or focus on a narrower or different defensive approach. For example, recognizing a framework like RISTA without including the targeting step leaves out how the system moves from awareness to engagement. Deny, Disrupt, Deceive outlines countermeasures rather than the actual operational roles of C-UAS. Detect, Destroy, Defend covers a subset of activities and still omits the complete progression from gathering information to executing an attack.

The question tests the full sequence of activities a C-UAS capability performs—from sensing the airspace to taking action. The best answer captures Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting, and Attack, which together describe how a C-UAS system first gathers awareness, analyzes and understands the threat, continuously monitors it, identifies the precise target, and then engages to neutralize it. This reflects the complete operational flow: discover and understand the threat (recon, intelligence, surveillance), pinpoint the threat (targeting), and then defeat it (attack).

The other options fall short because they either describe a broader intelligence framework that isn’t specific to C-UAS actions, or focus on a narrower or different defensive approach. For example, recognizing a framework like RISTA without including the targeting step leaves out how the system moves from awareness to engagement. Deny, Disrupt, Deceive outlines countermeasures rather than the actual operational roles of C-UAS. Detect, Destroy, Defend covers a subset of activities and still omits the complete progression from gathering information to executing an attack.